I think we get to this point anyway though, Abrahamic philosophy or not. That philosophy can be a justification, or a rationalization, for what was being done. The idea of God is the ultimate objective observer, because there's very little real objectivity in real life. Without that, who died and made the guy hogging all the stuff right?
Organized religion is, well, just another form of organization. As is civilization, which is, like any organized effort, a resource concentration mechanism. Once humanity started down the road of establishing a center, funneling those resources toward the center, and expanding outwardly, it was just a race to see who won.
We're not where we're at for any one reason. It's taken both violence and compassion, fact and faith, dumbass luck and earned skill, etc, etc. It takes both something like the concept of heaven to keep people getting out of bed every morning to deal with the bullshit because what's the point to existence if not for some purpose, any purpose, and the ability to actually physically save people's lives, even though each life that has ever been saved has contributed to the overpopulation issue.
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